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• Portugal Shows How To Deal With Drugs

  

  The United States has spent well over a trillion dollars in waging a "war on drugs", and we have filled our prisons with mostly non-violent drug offenders. Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Google Tries To Do Right, But Court Says No

  

  Google is one of the largest and most powerful internet companies, and because of that they get a lot of criticism from many people -- and some of that criticis... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2013 BUSINESS, POLITICS, SOCIETY, TECH

• The Meaning Of Equality Has Changed

  

  Some of you may think that the picture above is rather blasphemous, since the men in it gave us this country and our Constitution. But it is the truth. Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Intolerance Indicates Doubt

  

  “No one would burn a man alive for a demonstrable truth. Hence, no matter what their proponents believe, the Inquisition, the Crusades and the Jihad tend to... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Competence Of Obama Campaign

  

  I have written before about how the polls were all over the place before the 2012 election. Some of them even had the election as a dead heat, or gave the... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• First Permanent Atheist Monument On Government Property

  

  Last year, a christian group installed a 6-ton granite monument featuring the 10 Commandments on county property in front of the courthouse in Bradford County,... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Bush Legacy

  

  Just wanted to remind folks who got us into the economic mess we still are trying to dig out of. President George Bush inherited a booming economy with a... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• George Carlin On Religion

  

  This is a good analogy. I don't care what kind of shoes you choose to wear (sandals, boots, wingtips, loafers, moccasins, etc.). Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• GOP Is Blowing Its Chance On Immigration Reform & The Public Knows It

  

  The Republican Party did very poorly in the last election with minority groups -- losing each of them by more than 70%. The national leaders of that party know... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• U.S. Public Wants No Part Of War In Syria

  

  The civil war in Syria drones on, with neither side seemingly having the ability to do anything significant to change the momentum in their favor. Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Discrimination Is A Losing Proposition

  

  I found this chart, made from information provided by the 2010 U.S. Census, to be very interesting. It shows the percentage of same-sex couples raising... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Translation

  

  This is so true. There is no scandal here. Nothing was covered up. And far more people were killed in our embassies under the Bush administration. Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• It's Time To Eliminate "Capital Gains" Tax

  

  (The image above is by the inimitable DonkeyHotey.) Did you ever wonder how it is that Mitt Romney could pay only a 13% tax when he made over $20 million in... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Red State Voters Also Support Background Checks For Gun Purchases

  

  Recently the Congress had an opportunity to close the massive loopholes in the federal law requiring background checks for gun purchasers. Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Words Matter In Poll Results

  

  The two charts from a recent Gallup Poll show a real problem with some polls. If questions are not asked in a neutral way, without using words that have negativ... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Student Loans Are Cost-Effective

  

  This is ridiculous. I could understand a tiny percentage being charged, just to take care of the expense of making and keeping track of the student loans. But... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Explosion Of "Bread-Winner" Mothers

  

  The chart above (from the Pew Research Center) shows just how much our society has changed in the last 50 years. Back in 1960, less than 11% of households with... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 3 Reasons For Democrats To Celebrate

  

  Democrats can rejoice over several things in the news lately. In fact, I don't think the Democrats have had so much to celebrate since the election last... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Big Surprise - Republicans Are Biggest Liars

  

  (The above image was found at the website Workplace Psychology.) If you've read this blog for very long, then you know that I've referred to prominent... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Terrible Idea

  

  Prisons for profit may be one of the worst ideas that conservatives have come up with. Right-wingers would like to think that the private sector can always do... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY